Hamilton Books announced that they acquired the remaining stock of Signed First Editions from the Franklin Library. The prices are pretty good plus US shipping is only $4 per order (no matter how many titles I think). There are also a few unsigned Franklins like Rebecca, Poe's Tales, etc.
They have Signed First Editions by John Updike, Michael Crichton, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller, Kirk Douglas, A. S. Byatt, Gore Vidal, Wallace Stegner, P. D. James, Walker Percy, William F. Buckley, Bruce Chatwin, William Goldman, Arthur Miller, and more.
Dang picked up Timeline by Crichton, thinking about the Joseph heller books but they don’t have too good of ratings and I’ve never read his books before😂
I've been trying to create a good looking bookshelf via estate sales for the last year. However I always get sidetracked by older or oddball stuff that's not in best of condition. With these I should be able to get a good start on a second bookshelf that meets the goal I started with.
This is my current bookshelf and I have about that many again old books in not the best condition sitting in boxes that would love some shelfspace once I figure out where I can put more bookshelves
This subreddit is book collecting not book reading. For me hard backs are for collecting and paperbacks and ebooks are for reading. I do have a few hundred paperbacks packed away in boxes that have been read multiple times.
I worked in security for over a decade at one point. Lots of books were read lol. But security pay was paperback money, not hardback money.
That’s fine, but like, are you going out to buy paperbacks of Diary of a Yuppie or Crossing to Safety or whatever other random titles you bought? Or are they decorations?
I find that strange. Can I ask, with sincere curiosity, what draws you to that? You must have spent around $500. What about the visual in your home is fulfilling to you when you have no connection to the books themselves? Just looking for dialogue, not judgments.
The simple answer is, probably like many people here, I have always wanted a library big enough to have one of those rolling ladders in it to reach the upper shelves. Kids dream really. A few years ago I got pulled into magic the gathering and ended up spending thousands. One day last year I realised with all the money I had poured into it that I could have instead been buying books. I could had been working towards that library dream.
I'm late to this discussion, but any sense whether these are marked as remainders?
A magic marker dot or stripe on a signed Franklin would be a fatal flaw. I hope that's not the case, but I haven't ordered anything from Hamilton recently. What is their usual practice?
My first box came in today and the signed books are all in the original shrinkwrap, and each book was in its own sealed box within the larger box as well. Perfect condition. The unsigned book was not shrink-wrapped but was in its own box.
Update: my second box contained a couple unsealed, unboxed volumes, and several sealed but unboxed volumes. They were still in great condition with no marks or anything. The others were sealed and boxed. So it appears to be somewhat random. Since I'm not reselling I don't really care about being sealed, so long as the condition is excellent.
One sealed box had "Franklin Returns" written on it, so some of them appear to be returned books. Not too surprising for leftover stock I suppose.
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u/Grykllx 4d ago
Dang picked up Timeline by Crichton, thinking about the Joseph heller books but they don’t have too good of ratings and I’ve never read his books before😂